The four-month-long survey and outreach work coordinated by Germany’s health ministry (BMG) aimed at building a national digital health care strategy is now complete.
Spring Launch For Germany’s Digital Strategy
Interested parties have been consulted, workshop findings noted and online surveys completed; the drafting of Germany’s digital health strategy is now underway.
More from Germany
• By
The IVD industry’s new 10-point plan for healthcare change shows that medtechs will keep calling the German government to account. Tariffs, sector resilience, digital functionality are among the pressing issues industry wants answers to.
• By
Whoever is handed the health portfolio in Germany’s new coalition government will face demands to amend the recently-enacted hospital and DRGs reform law. The medtech industry has been quick to make the case for change.
• By
Germany’s Union parties may have little alternative than to bring the SPD into a new four-year coalition, says Clifford Chance partner and life sciences legal expert Gunnar Sachs. Health policy will likely see both textural and structural changes.
• By
Germany’s government-industry healthcare industry roundtables have yielded a final report, even though the program was curtailed by the snap election. The new CDU-led government should pick up the baton, medtech industry associations say.
More from Europe
• By
Pediatric devices and IVDs are to be a priority. And the European Health Data Space regulation is seen as critical in supporting digital technologies and AI in transforming care.
• By
As deadlines approach, the regulatory landscape for medtech batteries is set to change, with an emphasis on sustainability and ethical practices.
• By
Cambridge, UK-based breath biopsy company Owlstone Medical will apply its volatile organic compound analysis platform in an attempt to develop a test for the identification and monitoring of pseudomonas aeruginosa in patients with cystic fibrosis.